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Hunger crisis: ‘Now I can take care of my own family’
A three-year partnership with the EU in the southern African nation of Eswatini is improving food security through cash assistance, climate-smart farming and epidemic prevention In the Lubombo region...
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The Global Fund Welcomes the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation’s Contribution for Cross-border Malaria Elimination in Southern Africa
GENEVA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) welcomes a contribution by the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation of US$1 million to support the Global Fund’s...
WHO Eswatini Third Quarter Newsletter
WHO SUPPORTS COMPREHENSIVE EPI PROGRAMME REVIEW With Support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, the Kingdom of Eswatini has conducted a comprehensive Extended Programme on...
Vaccination campaign protects tens of thousands of schoolgirls from HPV
Eswatini – When 13-year-old Eswatini primary school pupil Tenele Sibandze* (not her real name) overcame her fear of being vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), she became one of tens of...
From Nhlangano to the Future: MSF's legacy in Shiselweni region
5 key facts about MSF in Eswatini As Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) prepares to leave the Shiselweni region after 16 years of work, its project in Nhlangano draws to a close...
WHO 75th Anniversary: Eswatini commits to the WHO Agenda of improving health for the people of Eswatini
The government of the Kingdom of Eswatini and development partners have congratulated the World Health Organization on its 75th anniversary, and further committed to the agenda of HEALTH FOR ALL. ...
TaiwanICDF partners with World Vision to guard maternal and child health in Eswatini
The COVID pandemic and the inflation have severely impacted vulnerable households’ livelihoods in Eswatini. To better the nutritional status and health of vulnerable women in the perinatal period,...
Intensified efforts to maintain a Polio free Eswatini
Eswatini has joined countries like Botswana, Mozambique, and Malawi in intensifying efforts to protect more people from polio. Following the finalisation of the National Polio Preparedness and...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 23 August 2022 - Eswatini
(excerpt) Eswatini And staying in Africa but moving south, in Eswatini, the UN team there, led by Resident Coordinator George Wachira, continues to strengthen Eswatini’s responses to the impacts of...
Building core capacities for points of entry through multisectoral collaboration and partnership in Eswatini
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters the third year, there is a need for building resilient border health systems to curb the international spread of diseases. The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of the...
Eswatini: Vaccinating people against COVID-19 in hard-to-reach communities
With COVID-19 vaccination rates hovering around only 28 percent in Eswatini, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the Ministry of Health’s national campaign to...
800,000 to receive COVID-19 vaccine in the kingdom of Eswatini
Most of the Israeli population is already fully vaccinated against Covid-19. IsraAID, the largest humanitarian aid organisation in Israel, is working to mirror that success in the Kingdom of...
In Eswatini, Pact launches app to fight Covid misinformation, vaccine hesitancy
Corinne Reilly Pact has a long history of helping communities in Eswatini overcome health challenges. For years, we’ve worked to reduce HIV infections, most recently through the USAID-funded Insika...
TaiwanICDF partners with World Vision Eswatini to meet nutritional needs of vulnerable pregnant women in Eswatini
Many vulnerable households in Eswatini are facing challenges in maintaining livelihoods due to the severe impact of COVID-19. In response, the International Cooperation and Development Fund...
Giving 110%: Eswatini’s early rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
15 June 2021 “I didn’t think that I could get COVID out here in my village,” says Linda Simelane at her home in Sibebe in rural Eswatini. “I stay away from people, I stay alone, but it happened that...
Eswatini launches nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign
24 March 2021 The Kingdom of Eswatini has joined many countries around the world in rolling out a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The Acting Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Themba...
Eswatini receives 12 000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility
On Saturday 13 March, the Kingdom of Eswatini had become one of the African countries that received the COVID 19 vaccine through the COVAX facility. This is indeed a major milestone in the fight...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 10 February 2021- Eswatini
(excerpt) Eswatini A quick update from Eswatini on what our colleagues on the ground are doing there to address the pandemic: The UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Nathalie Ndongo-Seh, has been...
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UK Emergency Medical Team deployed to Eswatini to support coronavirus response
UK medics will help treat some of the most serious coronavirus cases and stem the pandemic A team of medics from the UK’s Emergency Medical Team (EMT) is deploying to Eswatini in southern Africa to...